Love Your Neighbor and Yourself: A Jewish Approach to Modern Personal EthicsIn this topically relevant book on modern ethical issues, Dorff focuses on personal ethics, Judaism's distinctive way of understanding human nature, our role in life, and what we should strive to be, both as individuals and as members of a community. Dorff addresses specific moral issues that affect our personal lives: privacy, particularly at work as it is affected by the Internet and other modern technologies; sex in and outside of marriage; family matters, such as adoption, surrogate motherhood, stepfamilies, divorce, parenting, and family violence; homosexuality; justice, mercy, and forgiveness; and charitable acts and social action. |
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Thus in a university course in ethics one would examine questions of meaning, knowledge, justification, and comparison, such as these: • How should you define the terms “good” and “bad,” “right” and “wrong,” and why?
Thus in a university course in ethics one would examine questions of meaning, knowledge, justification, and comparison, such as these: • How should you define the terms “good” and “bad,” “right” and “wrong,” and why?
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What I present next has all the advantages and disadvantages of a survey course in college and of a first trip to a place that you do not know. Like them, this survey does not stop for the intriguing diversions and byways that one might ...
What I present next has all the advantages and disadvantages of a survey course in college and of a first trip to a place that you do not know. Like them, this survey does not stop for the intriguing diversions and byways that one might ...
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The Rabbis, of course, grounded their morality in the commandments of God, which Aristotle did not do. But for both, the exemplar of morality was the good person, who managed in his or her life to combine the ideal with the real.
The Rabbis, of course, grounded their morality in the commandments of God, which Aristotle did not do. But for both, the exemplar of morality was the good person, who managed in his or her life to combine the ideal with the real.
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Some norms, of course, are virtually universal—prohibitions against murder and theft, for example, and demands to help others. Even widespread norms, though, vary in definition; so, for example, for some pacifist religions, ...
Some norms, of course, are virtually universal—prohibitions against murder and theft, for example, and demands to help others. Even widespread norms, though, vary in definition; so, for example, for some pacifist religions, ...
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... He who regulates his life in accordance with the laws of medicine with the sole motive of maintaining a sound and vigorous physique and begetting children to do his work and labor for his benefit is not following the right course.
... He who regulates his life in accordance with the laws of medicine with the sole motive of maintaining a sound and vigorous physique and begetting children to do his work and labor for his benefit is not following the right course.
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Sommario
| 1 | |
| 33 | |
This Is My Beloved This Is My Friend Sex and the Family | 73 |
Parents and Children | 127 |
Family and Violence | 155 |
The Elements of Forgiveness | 207 |
Hope and Destiny | 231 |
Notes | 252 |
The Interaction of Judaism with Morality Defining Motivating and Educating a Moral Person and Society | 311 |
Notes to Appendix | 345 |
Bibliography of Cited Modern Sources | 347 |
Index | 361 |
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Informazioni bibliografiche
| Titolo | Love Your Neighbor and Yourself: A Jewish Approach to Modern Personal Ethics |
| Autore | Elliot N. Dorff |
| Edizione | ristampa |
| Editore | Jewish Publication Society, 2006 |
| ISBN | 082760825X, 9780827608252 |
| Lunghezza | 384 pagine |
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